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"RapidArc represents a major medical advance that will revolutionize theway image-guided IMRT is planned and delivered for thousands and thousands ofpatients," says Dow Wilson, president of Varian's Oncology Systems business."Interest in RapidArc is tremendous and we're finding that our radiationoncology clinicians are eager to learn how to implement it in their centers,so we're holding several events including symposia and webinars to addressthis interest."
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RapidArc, which recently received two FDA clearances for the treatmenthardware and the treatment planning software module in Varian's Eclipse(TM)treatment planning system, quickly delivers a complete volumetric IMRTtreatment in a single arc of the treatment machine around the patient. Varianhas started taking orders for RapidArc, and will begin delivering it tocustomers in the spring of 2008.
"RapidArc should make more precise and faster radiotherapy a moreaffordable and more accessible treatment option for more cancer patients,"says Wilson. "Varian is again providing technology advances that extend theversatility of a treatment system, adding volumetric arc therapy to otheradvanced capabilities including fixed-beam IMRT, image-guidance andstereotactic, electron and respiratory-gated treatments.
"No other company offers this level of options for customizing treatmentsaccording to each patient's specific needs on one treatment machine. Doctorscan utilize the advances of RapidArc for prostate and head and necktreatments, and still offer world-class fixed beam IMRT treatments with motionmanagement for lung and breast tumors and electron treatments for patientswith superficial lesions."
The first symposium has already taken place in Dallas, Texas and futureevents are scheduled for Orlando, FL. (February 28th); Newport Beach, CA.(March 18th); Chicago, IL. (May 3rd); Boston, MA.(May 7th); Philadelphia, PA.(June 12th); and Toronto, Canada (date tbc). External speakers have includedDr. Karl Otto, PhD, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver and Dr. CedricYu, ScD, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD. Thesesymposia are intended exclusively for medical professionals.
About Varian Medical Systems
Varian Medical Systems, Inc., of Palo Alto, California, is the world'sleading manufacturer of medical devices and software for treating cancer andother medical conditions with radiotherapy, radiosurgery, proton therapy, andbrachytherapy. The company supplies informatics software for managingcomprehensive cancer clinics, radiotherapy centers and medical oncologypractices. Varian is a premier supplier of tubes and digital detectors for X-ray imaging in medical, scientific, and industrial applications and alsosupplies X-ray imaging products for cargo screening and industrial inspection.Varian Medical Systems employs approximately 4,600 people who are located atmanufacturing sites in North America and Europe and in its 60 sales andsupport offices around the world. For more information, visithttp://www.varian.com/.
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